Of your "pure" list, only 2010 is worth the time and energy to bother watching. The others are sterile, bioring crap dressed in pseudo-intellectual robes.
Too bad Gattaca is boring as hell. It wanted to be important by covering a topic that has been done to death with sets and costumes tossed away from a low-budget TV miniseries. A psuedo-intellectual travesty made so people can act superior to those who "don't get it".
Let me get this straight. You're defence for AOTC sucking more shit than the New York City sewer system could handle in 100 years is that the original movies sucked, too? Why in God's name would you watch five movies that all suck?
And no, the first movie did not suck. It was cheesy, and goofy, but it was not anywhere near as craptacular as Episodes 1 and 2.
So I'm supposed to but up with lame acting, bad plot devices, and the woirst dialogue in recen histiry because it's part of a larger whole?
Bullshit. A movie IS a self-contained piece of work, and should be judged as such. People whio have to bring in other movies in the series, or (God forbid) the "extended universe" to compensate for the shortcomings of any movie are deluding themselves.
The Starw Wars "saga" has degenerated into total garbage. If it were not for all of the eye-candy and the rabid "Lucas Uber Alles" fan base, these last two movies would have been laughed out of the theatres as the drek they really are.
Answer me this: Should I overlook the craptastic nature of "Jaws 3" because "Jaws" was a much better movie? Should I convince myself that the shortcoming of "HellRaiser: Bloodlines" because it is part of a larger sotry arc started with a pretty good cheap horror movie?
I just don't get the whole obsession with getting Linix to run on an XBox. Why would you want Linux running on (what many people here claim is) a crappy PC? Why turn a powerful console into a 3rd-rate PC?
And you can bet your butt that anyone who does manage to get past the XBox' boot encryption system is going to get their ass sued off by Mircrosoft.
This proposal is utter garbage. It is simply a way to try to legitamiize (sp?) themselves and make a lot of money. It is no more fair than the current system, and may actually be worse. And there are issues I just don't like:
Who distributes the money?
With a flat fee artists whose work is popular, and therefor downloaded by more people, will not be compensated any more than an artist whose music stinks.
A tax on DC-Rs? Of all the CDs I've ever burned, only six have contained music.
A $1.00 "tax" added to my Internet access bill. Okay. Not a bad thing. But wait! What about a $1.00 fee for writers whose books are downloaded? And a $1.00 fee for porn that is downloaded? And what about a $1.00 fee for... Pretty soon you get a LOT of fees.
And speaking of fees, why should I pay for services I don't use? Why should you?
Obviously your PHD is not in the realm of sociology or psychology. If it were you could easily formulate a theory that didn't require you to be insulting and patronizing.
I'm sure that if you really cared, and were not interested in showing off your superiority to us uneducated, bigger-fatser-better obsessed troglodytes, you could figure out the answer to your question on your own.
Rat Wage Slave, Politically Incorrect, Male (who suffers neither liberal nor male guilt).
Do my eyes decieve me? You would despoil the greatest comedic work of all time with an "All Your Base" reference? Would you piss on the Mona Lisa? Would you season lobster with katchup?
Has humanity sunk to such lows? Have we sunk to such base and vile perversion?
Bah! Let the ateroids strike. Remouve our foul pestilence from the face of universe.
Cloning does not make men unneeded. All you get is carbon coipies with progressive genetic damage.
But, there is already science afoot that makes us males unneeded. A fertility research center is Autrailia (I wish I could find a link, but I can't) is doing research that would allow any cell in a doner body to act as an erzats sperm cell. This was originally devised to hel;p men who were 100% sterile.
Of course, two women having a child this way will only be able to have daughters.
It's aimed at people like me. People who are facinated with all things scientific, but do not have the in-depth knowledge. I am facinated by chemistry, and I know how it works on very general terms. But I don't have any formal education on the matter above what little I sat through in high school, 20 years ago.
The strata of human knowledge is more comlex that just "omniscient" and "complete dolt".
You lost me, Sparky. How does this tool help people break anyone's copyright? Does it help font warez monkey copy font files to floppy disks, zip files, Usenet posts, or any other form of distribution? No. It does not. It simply allows people to embed fonts in a PDF file, which stay local to that PDF file.
The XBox is not a PC. I get so fucking tired of seeing this same idiotic crap posted over and over. Sure, it uses some of the same technologies as a PC, but it's no more a PC than the PS2 is.
Hell, you can't even boot Linux on an XBox, but you can get Linux for the PS2.
I DON'T use Outlook at home and I have been getting 15 KLEZ infected emails a day. At work we use OutLook, but onlt behind some serious anti-virus software. I've seen a lot of disinfected emails reported to me by my users.
A friend of mine bought his seven-year old daughter one of these. She loves it. She plays with it for hours. She still plasys with crayons and pencils, and her dolls and other assorted kids toys.
And for those of you moaning about its size and bulkiness: it's not designed for you. It's designed for kids, who need something bigger to hold onto.
I went into Teh Phantmo Menice knowing nothing about it at all. I ignored the hype. I didn't buy the action figures. I didn't read the book, or the comics. I didn't go to movies I didn't like just to see the trailer.
My impression of Teh Phatnom Meanice? Pices of shit. Surprise and ignorance did nothing to make the movie better in any way.
I doubt very much it will help with Attakc Fo Teh Clownz, but you're free to do as you wish.
But seeing the level if criticle thinking skills demonstrated in yesterday's Voodoo Scince articel, I'm not at all surprised the mods have declaired the parent a troll.
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Of your "pure" list, only 2010 is worth the time and energy to bother watching. The others are sterile, bioring crap dressed in pseudo-intellectual robes.
Too bad Gattaca is boring as hell. It wanted to be important by covering a topic that has been done to death with sets and costumes tossed away from a low-budget TV miniseries. A psuedo-intellectual travesty made so people can act superior to those who "don't get it".
Bah!
Let me get this straight. You're defence for AOTC sucking more shit than the New York City sewer system could handle in 100 years is that the original movies sucked, too? Why in God's name would you watch five movies that all suck?
And no, the first movie did not suck. It was cheesy, and goofy, but it was not anywhere near as craptacular as Episodes 1 and 2.
So I'm supposed to but up with lame acting, bad plot devices, and the woirst dialogue in recen histiry because it's part of a larger whole?
Bullshit. A movie IS a self-contained piece of work, and should be judged as such. People whio have to bring in other movies in the series, or (God forbid) the "extended universe" to compensate for the shortcomings of any movie are deluding themselves.
The Starw Wars "saga" has degenerated into total garbage. If it were not for all of the eye-candy and the rabid "Lucas Uber Alles" fan base, these last two movies would have been laughed out of the theatres as the drek they really are.
Answer me this: Should I overlook the craptastic nature of "Jaws 3" because "Jaws" was a much better movie? Should I convince myself that the shortcoming of "HellRaiser: Bloodlines" because it is part of a larger sotry arc started with a pretty good cheap horror movie?
Yes. But why bother? P3/733s are dirt cheap.
video-card
No. Built into the motherboard. Sorry.
hard disk
Yes. But 8GB hard disk drives are really dirt cheap.
DVD player
No. The XBox DVD-ROM drive does not work in a PC.
I just don't get the whole obsession with getting Linix to run on an XBox. Why would you want Linux running on (what many people here claim is) a crappy PC? Why turn a powerful console into a 3rd-rate PC?
And you can bet your butt that anyone who does manage to get past the XBox' boot encryption system is going to get their ass sued off by Mircrosoft.
- Who distributes the money?
- With a flat fee artists whose work is popular, and therefor downloaded by more people, will not be compensated any more than an artist whose music stinks.
- A tax on DC-Rs? Of all the CDs I've ever burned, only six have contained music.
- A $1.00 "tax" added to my Internet access bill. Okay. Not a bad thing. But wait! What about a $1.00 fee for writers whose books are downloaded? And a $1.00 fee for porn that is downloaded? And what about a $1.00 fee for
... Pretty soon you get a LOT of fees.
- And speaking of fees, why should I pay for services I don't use? Why should you?
I don't like it.And you think I give a rat's festering gonads about the opinions of an anon?
Obviously your PHD is not in the realm of sociology or psychology. If it were you could easily formulate a theory that didn't require you to be insulting and patronizing.
I'm sure that if you really cared, and were not interested in showing off your superiority to us uneducated, bigger-fatser-better obsessed troglodytes, you could figure out the answer to your question on your own.
Rat
Wage Slave, Politically Incorrect, Male (who suffers neither liberal nor male guilt).
Fram what I could gather, and I do not understand Russian, this card looks very cool indeed.
Do my eyes decieve me? You would despoil the greatest comedic work of all time with an "All Your Base" reference? Would you piss on the Mona Lisa? Would you season lobster with katchup?
Has humanity sunk to such lows? Have we sunk to such base and vile perversion?
Bah! Let the ateroids strike. Remouve our foul pestilence from the face of universe.
Cloning does not make men unneeded. All you get is carbon coipies with progressive genetic damage.
But, there is already science afoot that makes us males unneeded. A fertility research center is Autrailia (I wish I could find a link, but I can't) is doing research that would allow any cell in a doner body to act as an erzats sperm cell. This was originally devised to hel;p men who were 100% sterile.
Of course, two women having a child this way will only be able to have daughters.
It's aimed at people like me. People who are facinated with all things scientific, but do not have the in-depth knowledge. I am facinated by chemistry, and I know how it works on very general terms. But I don't have any formal education on the matter above what little I sat through in high school, 20 years ago.
The strata of human knowledge is more comlex that just "omniscient" and "complete dolt".
But he is not modifying anyone elses fonts. Nor was that its intended purpose.
But I hate quicktime.
You lost me, Sparky. How does this tool help people break anyone's copyright? Does it help font warez monkey copy font files to floppy disks, zip files, Usenet posts, or any other form of distribution? No. It does not. It simply allows people to embed fonts in a PDF file, which stay local to that PDF file.
.DPF files to warez fonts?
How many people use
The XBox is not a PC. I get so fucking tired of seeing this same idiotic crap posted over and over. Sure, it uses some of the same technologies as a PC, but it's no more a PC than the PS2 is.
Hell, you can't even boot Linux on an XBox, but you can get Linux for the PS2.
I DON'T use Outlook at home and I have been getting 15 KLEZ infected emails a day. At work we use OutLook, but onlt behind some serious anti-virus software. I've seen a lot of disinfected emails reported to me by my users.
I don't feel tiny at all. I am, and that is all that matters. Te me, at least.
If by population, then yes. If you mean by size, no. California is behind Alaska (biggest) and Texas (second).
A friend of mine bought his seven-year old daughter one of these. She loves it. She plays with it for hours. She still plasys with crayons and pencils, and her dolls and other assorted kids toys.
And for those of you moaning about its size and bulkiness: it's not designed for you. It's designed for kids, who need something bigger to hold onto.
Anybody remember the nightmare in California with the Snack Tax? It was fucking insane. This man is an idiot.
I went into Teh Phantmo Menice knowing nothing about it at all. I ignored the hype. I didn't buy the action figures. I didn't read the book, or the comics. I didn't go to movies I didn't like just to see the trailer.
My impression of Teh Phatnom Meanice? Pices of shit. Surprise and ignorance did nothing to make the movie better in any way.
I doubt very much it will help with Attakc Fo Teh Clownz, but you're free to do as you wish.
I've purchased two boxes of 20 CD-Rs. I still have 22 left after three years. As for music CDs, I've made three.
The parent article is not a troll!
But seeing the level if criticle thinking skills demonstrated in yesterday's Voodoo Scince articel, I'm not at all surprised the mods have declaired the parent a troll.